Thu 16 Oct 2008
Lousy excuse for a Fall update post (without any screenshots???)
Posted by issa-sa under Fall 2008, ef ~a tale of memories~, Kannagi, Kemeko DX, Kuroshitsuji, Nodame Cantabile, Skip Beat
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Yea, I’m not exactly at my blogging fittest. Deal with it for the moment?
I dunno, should I continue with these?:
Rosario+Vampire Capu 2 Like I’d put myself through that. Just watch the OP and ED. Preferably without the sequences (okay the OP one’s pretty neat I suppose…)
Hakushaku to Yousei I wish they used Trinity Cross for this show instead of Midorikawa Hikaru’s ’singing’… Then i might continue watching it. *chucks into the waste of Mizuki Nana’s seiyuu prowess bin*
Mouryou no Hako I’m confused. So it’s CLAMP (see bevy of lanky weird looking guys in the OP), and it’s yuri and it’s all sorts of creepy? *scratches head* So not for me.
Macademi Wasshoi Kyouran Kazoku Nikki of this season? (i.e. wacky comedy that my brain processes as funny, yet I can’t muster up the actual laughter.)
Ga-Rei-Zero *YAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNSSSSSSSS* – for the first 20 or so minutes. Then FINALLY comes the ending that got many (including myself I’ll have to admit) excited… But save for that, I’ll just leave this one to good old blissmo from now on
Shikabane Hime Wasn’t bad. I think. I honestly don’t remember much about it. Dead chick with gun. Oh that one. Nyeh.
Yozakura Quartet Unlimited Sawashiro Miyuki Works!!! Err, nice OP by savage genius (OMG, the song she sang at Animelo XD)
Clannad After Story I’ll be brutally frank now without providing any reasons to support the following statement: I hate Clannad as a comedy. And I still do. Not that I like it any better as whatever it was supposed to be underneath the Kyoto Animation coating and the Sunohara/Sanae bullying.
Toradora Kugimiya Rie + tsundere = MANY HAPPY FANBOYS + one very unimpressed panda. Okay, for a show that features Kugimiya Rie as a tsundere, it actually appealed more to me than I expected (and there’s Horie Yui!). Nice chemistry between leads may just give this a leg up.
Hyakko I want to like this show. Well at least I think I did. I honestly can’t remember watching this one either. Oh the one with four girls. Hmmm, maybe.
Chaos; Head Welcome to the Higurashi! Or something. Reeks of B-grade-ness. But hey, don’t want to sound like an elitist right here. *shrugs*
AM watching:
Skip Beat! Oooo, Inoue Marina sure gives this show some good TOSHOKAN SENSOU (!!!) vibes… But other than that, having not read the manga and being yet to see the appeal of either of the male leads, I’m really just watching this to see some good old revenge happening… Cos hell hath no fury than a shoujo lead scorned XD (Now if there’s only a way to mimmick what desperate Kyoko is doing without involving the cops… Sheesh, all the manager guy had to do was dial 3 digits…)
Kannagi Oh, who cares about the snazzy dancing OP or the crazy shrine maiden gimmick – SHIMONO HIRO people, SHIMONO TAJIMA(OoFuri)TADASHI(S.A. *urgh*)HIRONO(ef – the first one) HIRO PEOPLE!!!
Kemeko DX Sorry Macademi Wasshoi, you might’ve had more of a chance winning me over in the wacky comedy department had you had CAKE in the first episode.
Nodame Cantabile Paris Chapter I may have zero music talent (kinda think of it, I really have no real talents at all… OTL), but Nodame is almost everything I inspire to be in life… Well, can live without (or rather out of) Paris right now, but I could sure as hell use a Chiaki XD GYABO!
Kuroshitsuji CAEEEEKEEEEE *ahem*
ef – a tale of nekkidartistsflowinghairandkinkycosplay melodies Wait, what, Australia?? Other than that, it’s effing ef, so watching.
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October 16, 2008 @ 10:54 pm
Actually, if I remember correctly CLAMP just did the character-designs of the original Mouryou no Hako manga. The anime had a different character-designer, who based his designs on CLAMP. Oh, and the second episode has much less yuri, for obvious reasons. ^^;
October 16, 2008 @ 11:12 pm
Hakushaku, Toradora and GA-REI looks promising so far, I suggest that you should continue them ^_^. Anyway, have you seen the recap episode of ANTM? Lol Elina is retardedly funny XD…
October 17, 2008 @ 1:16 am
I’m surprised the ugly Hyakko art didn’t make more of an impression on you =3.
October 17, 2008 @ 1:30 am
I would move Toradora to the watch column. Then again I’m one of those many happy Kugimiya fanboys too. Clannad will enter bawwwwl mode soon enough so enjoy the lighthearted episodes before ‘you know what’ happens.
Also needs moar pictures. With snazzy captions. Yes!
October 17, 2008 @ 2:21 am
Thank you.
And I love your title for ef. Though I’d like any title that isn’t “ef- a tale of melodies” or “ef – a tale of memories,” the two most boring titles ever created.
October 17, 2008 @ 3:55 am
Not convinced by Hakushaku to Yousei’s fabulous paddle-steamers?
Interesting point about comedies which are plainly funny yet fail to elicit any actual laughter – personally, I’ve found a lot of ‘net humour’s like that, too.
October 17, 2008 @ 4:27 am
Also that robot show that nobody but me likes. And he was good in that, too. Both main actors in Kannagi have been awesome so far.
October 17, 2008 @ 6:43 am
I would also move Toradora to the watch column. Maybe it will fizz out in the middle but even if they switch to a more romance story, it will still be good, IMHO.
October 17, 2008 @ 10:16 am
“I hate Clannad as a comedy.”
I disagree, and clannad is more than a comedy, but each to its own…
October 17, 2008 @ 10:43 am
@otou-san: What do you mean? I love that show too!
Look, the only Kugimiya Rie role I truly like is Kagura
October 17, 2008 @ 4:51 pm
This is what I get for accidentally publishing a post that was really a raw draft of unedited crass thoughts I had on the shows I’ve watched so far… *ahem* replies…
@psgels: Oops, my bad. Yuri’s fine (as long as they keep the whole WE ARE REINCARNATIONS OF EACH OTHER thing to a minimum), but that aside the show really looks more up your alley than mine.
@kanzeon: Unfortunately, I don’t think I can accomodate every series this season that ‘looks promising’ (minus Rosario, and with my loose standards, that would probably mean every single one of these shows).
@Kabitzin: It didn’t strike me as ugly at all. Then again, it really didn’t strike me as much in the first place…
@Yamcha: Brain’s too dead to think of captions for pictures you’ve probably seen on other blogs anyways…
@Baka-Raptor: You’re welcome. I guess the creators didn’t get your note about capitalization.
@IKnight: Nothing is more fabulous this season than… Gundam 00 maybe. (I doubt anyone’s going to laugh at that line either)
@otou-san: Not usually a robot show person, but I guess I could always make an exception for Shimono
@Caitlin: Toradora has exceeded my (biasedly low) expectations in just 2 episodes, but it’s really the kind of show I’d just watch, acknowledge in my head as entertaining, but really get too little kick from watching to care in the long run… Kinda like a good 80% of the shows this season.
@EvilDevil: Evidently Clannad is more than a comedy. If it was just that I probably wouldn’t watch it at all. I’ll give it props for making at least half the people who watch it bust a gut laughing, but give me another season of Galaxy Angels anyday (if you wanted an indication of what my personal sense of humour is like)
@shirokiryuu: Ditto Kagura XD
October 17, 2008 @ 5:42 pm
I’m going to check out Skip Beat! and hate it
October 18, 2008 @ 12:11 am
waah! text wall!!! lol… good choices for this season though…
i enjoyed watching hakushaku & yousei… but that’s only because it’s set in victorian england and i’m partial those kinds of stories.
“Kuroshitsuji CAEEEEKEEEEE *ahem*”
wasn’t that pie???
i’ve yet to be impressed by kannagi though…
October 18, 2008 @ 1:51 am
Hahaha!!!
Cats,panthers,pandas, it is starting to become a zoo!!! But is that such a bad thing?
Would you like to blog roll with me?
Kemeko Deluxe! 01 ~The Iron Bride~ « hikikomori-chan said,
October 18, 2008 @ 11:13 am
[...] picking it up because i know this as the stupid rice cooker fiancee show. But there are two bloggers, who I like to think I have the same level of humor as they did… They enjoyed the show amidst [...]
October 18, 2008 @ 11:26 pm
You’ve made a nirvena worldly choice in not following Rosario+Vampire Capu 2. I think it’s crap after watching 3 episodes and wasting 60 mins+ of my precious time.
Oh yeah to Ga-Rei Zero, I’m in the wagon with bliss on her side for this series. (:
October 21, 2008 @ 4:44 am
I never considered Clannad to be comedy. It always has been and will be pseudo-fapping material for me. Ga-Rei’s pretty good too even though it’s not my usual genre of choice, but I guess having a katana wielding schoolgirl helped.
October 21, 2008 @ 11:43 am
Clannad was funny? Only moe fans find it funny!
And Nodame Cantabile has been disappointing for me so far. Muki!
October 23, 2008 @ 8:41 pm
“Nice chemistry between leads may just give this a leg up.”
Yes. Very nice chemistry
Yukan Blog! » Blog Archive » Skip Beat! 01-03: Come On, Shine On, Be My Superstar said,
October 29, 2008 @ 5:27 pm
[...] been watching anime I wouldn’t usually watch and I put all the blame on usagijen and issa-sa. They’ve been cleverly dragging me into the “lovey-dovey turf” which I had never [...]
Skip Beat! 01-03: Come On, Shine On, Be My Superstar | Hobbies Blog said,
October 29, 2008 @ 6:11 pm
[...] been watching anime I wouldn’t usually watch and I put all the blame on usagijen and issa-sa. They’ve been cleverly dragging me into the “lovey-dovey turf” which I had never [...]
November 1, 2008 @ 10:52 pm
yay more watching skip beat!
November 23, 2008 @ 8:35 am
I think my obsession (it has limits, I swear) with Inoue Marina['s voice] ought to prompt me to watch Skip Beat. Impz’s raeglove also proves a formidable motivator. But you’re the first one (I think?) to have thought about dropping Toradora!
edit: yeah, this post is a month old, oops.